Amazon pulls out of NYC

[Antonio the Sixth]

VICTORY!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good for the country overall and sends a message but bad for NYC.

Its a prisoners dilemma situation.

I don’t know about you, but every renter in NYC just sighed for relief just now.

Renters should just own property to get equity.

Not that I entirely disagree (back in the day I thought Dubya's "ownership society" rhetoric was marginally less idiotic than most other budding leftists whom I knew thought it was, although the policies that that rhetoric was supporting obviously turned out to be disasters), but this strikes me as a great example of an unhelpful "should" without reference to an "is" (or, more specifically, a "how to").

Encouraging homeownership sounds like a good idea (and, as someone who has firsthand experience of  being saddled with obscenely high rent and is hoping to get rid of it as soon as possible, I'm certainly sympathetic to it as a social ideal), but in practice all the policies that tend in that direction end up exacerbating inequality and driving up homelessness. Countries that do a better job housing people almost universally do so with policies geared toward renters.

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Do you also support public taxpayers buying stadiums for Billionaire football owners?

Yes, as preserving major sports teams strengthens regional identity and solidarity.

giving money to billionaires = yay community building
giving money to poor people = eww socialism

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The gall of the billionaire class is directly proportional by the grovelling cowardice of its sycophants, and Monroe's posts perfectly illustrate that. As long as there will be people who are devoted to licking Bezos' boots, of course he will keep acting like he's owed billions and billions in free public money for his great munificence.

Luckily, the people of New York are waking up, and others will surely follow suit.

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://www.theonion.com/wait-mr-bezos-you-forgot-your-tax-subsidy-says-an-1832633757

^ Basically Monroe in this thread

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So once you kick all those evil corporations out where are people going to work?

ayy lmao